Cinematic Poetics of Guilt : : Audiovisual Accusation as a Mode of Commonality / / Matthias Grotkopp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Grotkopp, Matthias,
• MitwirkendeR: Hendrickson, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Cinepoetics – English edition , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 257 p.)

How do the temporal and dynamic patterns of media forms and practices create complex constructions of meaning, identity and value? How can we describe the way cinematic images generate and transform the affectively grounded structures that survey, confirm or revise a political community’s horizon of values? Using the exemplary case of feelings of guilt, the author develops an approach that makes patterns of audiovisual compositions intelligible as aesthetic modulations of moral feelings. A sense of guilt is presented here as neither an individualistic psychological emotion nor an external social mechanism of control but as a paradigmatic case for understanding politics and history as based upon embodied affectivity and shared relations to the world. By taking three distinct examples – German Post-War cinema, Hollywood Western and films on climate change – patterns of audiovisual composition and the inherent calculation of affect are analyzed as practices shaping the conditions of possibility of political communities and their historicity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Author’s Note -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical Positions -- 1 Feeling and Morality in the Cinema -- Part 2: Affective Dramaturgies of the Sense of Guilt -- 2 The Present: German Post-War Cinema and Guilt Reorganized -- 3 The Past: Hollywood Genre Poetics -- 4 The Future: Global Responsibility and the Rhetoric of Climate Change -- 5 Conclusion: The Cinema’s Guilty Conscience -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Name Index -- Film Index